One true thing a novel
Ellen Gulden begins to resent her father after he asks her to come home and care for her dying mother, and, as Ellen and her mother reconnect, Ellen becomes even more estranged from her father and her former life, until a devastating event causes Ellen to re-examine everything she has ever known.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
2006, c1994.
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| Edition: | 1st Random House Trade Paperback ed. |
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| Summary: | Ellen Gulden begins to resent her father after he asks her to come home and care for her dying mother, and, as Ellen and her mother reconnect, Ellen becomes even more estranged from her father and her former life, until a devastating event causes Ellen to re-examine everything she has ever known. |
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| Physical Description: | 299 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0812976185 |
| Author Notes: | Quindlen worked as a reporter for the New York Post and the New York Times and wrote columns for the Times. She won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary before devoting herself to writing fiction. She has written both adult fiction (including Object Lessons, Black and Blue and One True Thing, which was made into a motion picture starring Meryl Streep) and children's fiction (Happily Ever After and The Tree That Came to Stay). Her title Alternate Side made the bestseller list in 2018. Currently, she is a columnist at Newsweek. Her title Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake made The New York Times Best Seller list for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) |
